From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 9:24:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AE7937BF28 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 09:24:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 26437 invoked from network); 13 May 2000 16:23:52 -0000 Received: from sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.27) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 13 May 2000 16:23:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 6821 invoked by uid 211); 13 May 2000 16:23:51 -0000 Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 21:53:50 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brett Glass Cc: gh , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000513215350.A6803@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Brett Glass , gh , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <4.3.1.2.20000513100518.0444c390@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000513100518.0444c390@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 10:07:18AM -0600 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.31 i486 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass said on May 13, 2000 at 10:07:18: > At 07:08 AM 5/13/2000, gh wrote: > > >Curious: If many people are not in favor (for lack of a better phrase) of > >GNU, why do we still use tools developed under its ideology? > > I personally have advocated the complete de-GNUing of all of the BSDs. So how many replacements have you written for GNU utilities? And why aren't the FreeBSD project or other people using your de-GNU'd code? Is it possible that there may be more useful things for other people to do than rewrite existing well-written code? R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message